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The actual application of such a tax will involve lots of rent-seeking, privileges, exemptions, inefficiencies, and regulatory arbitrage.

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Although it has had very little success in actual application, the Impossibility Defense is much talked about in asset protection circles.

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Meanwhile, MPC Data is going after much more of a niche, but doing it well: its SwiftBoot tech can get Linux up and running an actual application on an embedded device-ready Renesas SuperH SH7724 processor in under a second (0.982 seconds, to be precise).

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But the actual hosting of the application, the actual requirements for that application to exist in a cloud environment, to connect to the virtualized resources and whatever administration tools the cloud providers may give you to configure and maintain the application, will be, for the most part, controlled by the cloud provider.

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Instead of converting written missives to voice messages like other text-to-landline services, the setup sends the actual text to the application.

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Making the processing of the voice recognition a function of the hardware of the device, makes that aspect of the application asynchronous with the actual database query.

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BizMile Tracker is a web-based application that generates mileage reports based on actual distances using maps and addresses.

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In the Lords (from 2.30pm) questions to ministers range across increasing sports in schools, asylum seekers' right to work in the UK after six months of waiting for a decision on their application - and the proportion of deaths recorded as caused by cancer where the actual cause of death was the treatment.

BBC: Week ahead

The survey was based on thousands of consumers who used the Ratemizer application in order to find out how to cut their mobile plans to fit the actual consumption level.

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